Has the color spectrum shifted?

I have been seeing post all over the web about people saying that colors just do not look right. Things look different some how. Colors being a little
different than they remember. I had it happen to me today. A co-worker that sees my truck every day thought I had gotten a new truck or had my painted
because he remembers it being a lite brown and now it is a dark brown. I have not noticed any color change myself but to be truthful about it I
most likely would not notice a small color change. Has any one noticed any changes in the way colors look?

Yes - I guess I should be more clear. I have not noticed any differences in the colors I am perceiving. I have been noticing differences in the
increasing extent to which I see light reflected, and how that reflected light appears (intensifying). I'm not complaining - it can be beautiful

Originally posted by jude11
The only thing I've noticed is that the sky just doesn't seem to be as blue as in my childhood.

Whether it's due to a color spectrum shift or just fond memories being color enhanced because of the World we live in today, I don't know.

Maybe in our youth, ignorance is bliss and allows things to be that much more beautiful?

Whatever it is, I miss the blue skies of my youth.

Peace.

edit on 24-8-2011 by jude11 because: (no reason given)

You are absolutely right about the bluer skies of the past, in my opinion. Let us also not forget the richer, yellower sunshine of yesteryear. The
skies have changed a lot, but it seems that not many people have perceived this.

Funny... I say all the time how the Sun used to be more yellow and not as harsh.... I remember being told not to stare at the sun to long or I could
go blind, now you can't even glance at the Sun without it hurting...You can't even look towards the part of the sky near it without whiteing out your
vision for a few minutes... I always notice it but kind of brush it off and blame it on my older eyes... Maybe I stared a little to long one time...
Naww... It is different.

Because the brightness of the Sun varies slightly with solar activity, the new reconstruction indicates also that the Sun shines somewhat brighter
today than in the 8,000 years before. Whether this effect could have provided a significant contribution to the global warming of the Earth during the
last century is an open question. The researchers around Sami K. Solanki stress the fact that solar activity has remained on a roughly constant (high)
level since about 1980 - apart from the variations due to the 11-year cycle - while the global temperature has experienced a strong further increase
during that time. On the other hand, the rather similar trends of solar activity and terrestrial temperature during the last centuries (with the
notable exception of the last 20 years) indicates that the relation between the Sun and climate remains a challenge for further research.

I was looking around for more info a while back and found that article that I tought was relevant,,, I was born in 1974 and this article points to
1980 as being the start of this recent "constant high"... What started the search for me was a thread here on ATS talking about colors changing on a
prisim (I should have bookmarked it). The post was about the prisim rainbow not being the same anymore...

Needless to say...I'm with you... It is different... Not sure about percieving different colors but if the spectrum of light being reflected is
different then I could see how the colors we percieve could also be different, though blue is still blue to me.

Funny... I say all the time how the Sun used to be more yellow and not as harsh.... I remember being told not to stare at the sun to long or I could
go blind, now you can't even glance at the Sun without it hurting...You can't even look towards the part of the sky near it without whiteing out
your vision for a few minutes... I always notice it but kind of brush it off and blame it on my older eyes... Maybe I stared a little to long one
time... Naww... It is different.

My observations precisely, too. One day in particular a couple of weeks ago, everything was so bright I could
hardly keep my eyes open, it was painfully bright. Putting on my tinted driving glasses helped, but even they did not seem to be as dark, things were
still bright. And looking at the Sun nowadays? Forget it.

seems to go hand in hand with what these people are saying, light intensity is probably increasing due to our weakening atmospheric light
filter(or...GLOBAL WARMING. haha just kidding), maybe letting through some other wave forms people aren't used to hence the hurting eyes(its been
happening to me too) and colors may be seen different if the filter is letting in new spectrum of light, perhaps were all straining our eyes to
perceive interference from these new wave forms.

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